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The state will receive $905,000 in funding to improve dams across the state to address flooding concerns, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.

The funding is a part of the NY Works initiative and will fund design work for seven dams and build one new dam this fall, Gannett's Ashley Hupfl reports. It includes dams in Putnam, Ulster and Livingston counties.

"In the last few years, regions across the state experienced terrible storms and flooding, which made it clear that we need to update and improve our infrastructure," Cuomo said in a statement.

Of the eight new dam projects, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Office of General Services funded two projects and the six others were funded by the DEC and the Dormitory Authority.

Upgrades to the dams will include: raising the height of the dams to increase storm-water storage capacity, reinforcing embankments, expanding piping and adding outlet valves, controlling erosion, and installing new pipes for better draining of storm-water.